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NVIDIA has launched Cosmos-H-Dreams, a real-time, action-conditioned generative simulator designed to accelerate the development and evaluation of surgical robotics policies. The system builds on the earlier Cosmos-H-Surgical-Simulator, which generated future surgical video from robot actions but operated at slower-than-real-time speeds. Cosmos-H-Dreams distills these capabilities into a causal student model optimized for interactive use, enabling closed-loop control on a single NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 GPU.

Cosmos-H-Dreams specializes in tabletop suturing tasks using the da Vinci Research Kit (dVRK) and has been integrated with the Versius surgical controller by CMR Surgical and Cambridge Consultants for real-time operation. The model receives an initial RGB frame and live robot kinematics, generating subsequent frames autoregressively to simulate surgical scenes. This approach addresses challenges such as deformable tissue, fine instrument interactions, and occlusions that complicate traditional simulation methods.

The system employs a teacher-to-student training pipeline, where a bidirectional teacher model is fine-tuned on the JHU dVRK tabletop dataset, including both successful and failed demonstrations. The teacher’s temporal horizon is progressively increased during training to improve stability, and a causal student is trained to imitate precomputed trajectories. Self-forcing distillation ensures the student model remains robust during deployment by learning from its own generated context.

Cosmos-H-Dreams is served through FlashDreams, an accelerated inference library that reduces generation latency to approximately 160 frames per second on supported hardware. The system supports multiple interfaces, including browser-based controls and Meta Quest integration, and can be connected to learned surgical policies for closed-loop interaction. While initially focused on tabletop suturing, the platform is designed for extensibility to other embodiments and provides a foundation for future applications such as telesurgery and intraoperative decision support.